Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited for a rendition of Hey Jude in LA this week, as the former Beatles commemorated 50 years since the group first appeared on American television. To celebrate the landmark event, here's the Fab Four and their frenzied US fans in pictures

Flashbulbs, flying jelly beans and fans fainting - it's fifty years since the Fab Four's first touchdown in the USA. To mark the madness, Al Aronowitz documents their press conference for a piece published in Saturday Evening Post in March 1964 - taken from Rock's backpages